Most Infected

1. New York – 59,648 cases
2. New Jersey – 13,386 cases
3. California – 6,312 cases
4. Michigan – 5,486 cases
5. Massachusetts – 4,955 cases

Highest Death Tolls

New York – 965 deaths
Washington – 200 deaths
New Jersey – 161 deaths
Louisiana – 151 deaths
Michigan – 132 deaths

Mar. 29th, 2020 – COVID-19

I put this together on the date recorded, didn’t get around to publishing it here on my actual website, but I thought it was worth doing now simply to illustrate the point that from the beginning of this pandemic, all our problems here in America started and spiraled out to the rest of the country from Dem strongholds, states and cities they control. It’s not a coincidence.

Used to agree with forcing the issue, legalizing it one state at a time, daring feds to fuck with players in the new weed industry, and forcing it further in court (state vs. fed).

I’m not entirely sure that was the wrong approach either tbh but… it’s a model Democrats later used to impliment sanctuary city and sanctuary state laws.

Seeing how much of an overstep in state authority that was, the direct defiance of legitimate federal law… it had me rethinking past state by state campaigns similarly designed to undermine legit federal authority.

One could say the federal laws on weed aren’t legitimate I guess but by the same token the state has no standing on the issue either.

Fact is it’s a problem existing in federal law, therefore should be addressed on a federal level in a straightforward manner. No need to muddy up the waters – to confuse the matter – by involving the states and creating the “state vs. fed” fight.

It’s a “fed vs. we the people” fight; obfuscating it with peripheral bullshit just makes it that much harder to win the battles that matter, or hell, to even get them started. In any case it’s gone as far as it needs to on that basis imho.

The campaign has grown to national proportions, has arguably existed on that scale for at least the last 6 years or so, and it’s time to start acting like it. Rather than pitting the federal government against a coalition of states opposed to it, I say consolidate and leverage the state by state efforts into a campaign focused on forcing Congress to change the federal laws themselves.

Cut the bullshit and get straight to the heart of the matter. It’s one thing for the state governments to act as checks on the federal, and vice-versa – it’s quite another to pit them against each other needlessly in a conflict that only distracts from the real issue at hand, the real conflict.

Enough with this beating around the bush bullshit; the war on drugs has been dead for a decade, isn’t it long past time we made it official.

Let’s finally end this shadowy, disingenuous prohibition that’s effectively existed against marijuana for the last 70 years in this country; it failed with alcohol, and it’s failed with this. No more pretending otherwise – it’s over.

I’m calling for this as a Republican, a Trump voter, and as an individualistic, freedom loving, hedonistic American stoner.

Trump never said the coronavirus is a hoax; those who claim he did are blatantly lying. What he said was the behavior and encouragement of panic coming from Democrats was a hoax, and we should be realistic about this virus as it progresses.

He wasn’t calling the virus a hoax; that’s such a tired line already.

And the doomsday predictions were and are a hoax. In the news today, that scientist with the forecasting model who freaked everybody out is now saying he was way off, his model flawed, and it’s not going to be nearly as bad as he claimed.

Call it what you like. It’s a hoax.

To any Trump haters out there snickering about the negative economic effects we’re currently experiencing from the public’s over-reaction to the COVID-19 hype…

Tell me how it would have played out had Trump not rebuilt our economy and realigned our supply chains away from China before all this started to happen. You think we would have been in as good a shape as we are now without Trump?

If you think “yes”…

You need to think again.

Was watching a portrayal of the infamous Kennedy family dynasty (The Kennedy’s, 2011) and I’m struck in the first few episodes by their rendition of J. Edgar Hoover.

How people on a mainstream level can acknowledge the guy operated the way he did for 30 years before JFK, tried turning that operation against the sitting president so he could keep running the FBI with an absolute lack of accountability…

How you can full well know that as a matter of historic fact, and be skeptical of the FBI doing essentially the same to Trump is mind boggling.

The only real difference between the two former FBI directors is, James Comey (unlike Hoover) was being puppeteered by other players, a willing pawn in their schemes.

Hoover didn’t seem to believe anyone truly out ranked him, he worked for himself – Comey took his cues from Obama and Clinton through Loretta Lynch. He worked with and for them; consequently, none of the wrongdoing or corruption he’s known to have engaged in (got him fired) can be separated from them imo.

Aside from handlers…

Comey violated privacy rights for corrupt purposes, tried (and re: Trump, failed) to collect blackmail material, and I think history is going to remember the FBI as run by James Comey as a pale, weak, failure prone imitation of the police state monstrosity run by Hoover.

Trump supporters like me already see it that way, and we’re pretty much just waiting for the rest of America to catch the fuck up.

Democrats: let’s smear Trump as a Russian stooge. Also Democrats: let’s nominate a full blown communist who literally honeymooned in the USSR, and who explicitly agrees with the ideologies of guys like Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro.

The cognitive dissonance of it… lol you’d think shit like that’d give the snowflakes throbbing headaches.

Downgraded my cable plan a while back, going to cut it soon – the reason I bring that up is that I still have the Fox News channel, but not Fox Business, so I watched Maria Bartiromo’s ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ (Mar. 1) on YouTube.

She’s actually one of my favorite reporters, one of the few left that seems to care more about accuracy than a political agenda, so I was especially disgusted when she opened by telling the audience to brace themselves for an explosion of new corona virus cases in America.

I mean tell me, what kind of fear-mongering bullshit is that? She had Mike Pence on shortly after the show began, and the line of questions continued to disgust me, the underlying presumption of all of them being that the Trump administration has somehow dropped the ball on this; they’re actively pushing that narrative.

This is why you can’t even trust so-called right-wing news to be true, accurate, or even as right wing as lefties accuse them of being: they’re a corporation. She questioned him on the testing, he pushed back, she pushed more & said “the 500!?”, implication obviously being that it isn’t a whole lot of testing… and he hit her with a solid right hook, explaining that we’ve screened 47,000 people so far, and counting.

So people acting like the Trump administration isn’t doing its job on this issue are simply full of shit.

That’s not to say I won’t or don’t watch Fox News, or that I hold it against Bartiromo when she puts Pence’s feet to the fire on several fronts on the response to corona, the argument could be made she’s going at him so hard so Pence can take the worst of the criticisms from Democrats head-on in a non-hostile setting… but with how seriously she seemed to take the concerns as she voiced the questions, and especially with the intro to the show, she serves the establishment agenda of rattling markets worldwide.

There’s no real reason for some of the sell-offs they’ve had going on for the past few days – unless you listen to Nancy Pelosi saying Trump is handling the outbreak terribly, or Schumer claiming Trump isn’t asking for enough money to deal with it, or Maria Bartiromo warning of an explosion of new cases, pushing claims the administration isn’t even bothering to test people… but none of it is actually true.

And though I’m not a financial “expert” and you shouldn’t consider this to be “qualified” advice (I’m not liable for your investments), sure seems to me that since the stock market is in the midst of a dip, now is prbly a great time to buy stocks.

(Edit: I wrote this yesterday, markets have already made huge come back.)